AN APPEAL FROM THE TRENCHES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1467, 2 November 1915, Page 4

AN APPEAL FROM THE TRENCHES.

A istriUinjjf apjj-i'al to tho men ol New Zealand coiiich Horn tlie* trcm-lics in tbo loim ol a letter written by a wellknown Canterbury loothaller to a li-ieiul in Wellington. The letter, which was written on Septemlxu- 3, gives a vivid idea ol the, pressure to which the Now Zealanders have been exposed during the last live or six months. It reads;.—“lt. is the same old thing, day alter day, and week alter week—hutting up against the Turks in a closely-packed scrimmage, with an occasional break-away, in which yon may get knocked out. or may not, and, in any case, get a little lurlher ahead. I shall never regret coming here lor 1 know better than ever it was playing the game; hut to-night 1 am sick' and tired, and wondering it the. people ol New Zealand are sending someone along; to take my place. I would give halt my accumulated pay tor a drink ol cold water, a sight ol green grass, and a place to stretch my limbs. . . . Nothing would hearten us up so much as to hear that all the young men in New Zealand were crowding one another in their ellorts to get to our assistance, bid. the news that filters through does not give ns the impression that they are. 1 wish they knew how much they are wanted, that men are sickening and dying lor want ol 'a lew week's' 7'e.st, and I hat we are all wailing and hoping and slid wailing tor the help o! onr old mad's. ( live everyone ot I hem a shove along when yon gel I lie ehanee. .My wound is now (pdie healed and gives me no particular trouble, hid, like hundreds ol (letter men who have been here Irom the first, 1 want a month’s rest, and it I don’t get it—-well. i| won’t mallei’ as far as 1 am concerned, hut 1 should think when (he chaps stopping at home knew all about it they would he a little sorry they didn’t come over and help